Amy Plum Quotes
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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People want you to fail.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
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I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.
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Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
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There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.
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We can define the rules of police-citizen engagement, but everyday decisions will always be made by men and women in uniform, on the street, in the community, under extreme pressure, in a dangerous world where guns easily fall into the wrong hands.
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I make music almost, like, every day. But I don't release a lot of music.
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I just try to leave my baggage at the door. I don't want to carry my stuff into a working environment with me, and I expect that from other people. If they can't do it, though, I'm surprisingly understanding.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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I just need to be me.
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All of our movies are lower budget, and that makes them more interesting, too: we have to come up with solutions other than throwing money at problems.
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We're all lost souls here. It's a good thing we've got each other.
